Prominent human rights activist Dr. Mahrang Baloch has been charged with aiding separatist groups in Pakistan’s Balochistan province, officials revealed Saturday. The charges against Baloch, a leader of the Baloch Yakjehti Committee (BYC), include accusations of incitement, spreading hatred, and facilitating terrorist organizations. The case against Baloch was registered following a complaint filed by local [...]

UN agencies and NGOs expressed deep concern over the referral of humanitarian personnel to criminal prosecution by the Houthi authorities in Yemen, according to a joint statement on Saturday. They called for the immediate and urgent release of the workers. “The targeting of humanitarians in Yemen – including arbitrary detention, intimidation, mistreatment, and false allegations–must [...]

Riverside County Sheriff Chad Bianco announced that a man was arrested on Saturday for attempting to bring two unregistered guns through a security checkpoint at former President and Republican candidate Donald Trump’s rally in Coachella, California. The man, named Vem Miller, was arrested for charges relating to the possession of the unregistered firearms. The Sheriff [...]

Federal judges and magistrates in Mexico voted to end their nearly two-month strike on Friday against judicial reforms implemented by former President Andrés Manuel López Obrador which made judges elected rather than appointed. Although the National Association of Circuit Magistrates and District Judges (JUFED) announced that judicial proceedings will recommence, the judges and magistrates have [...]

The Constitutional Court of Bosnia and Herzegovina has temporarily suspended a new school curriculum in the Republika Srpska under which elementary school students would be taught about the “achievements” of convicted war criminals Ratko Mladić and Radovan Karadzic. A statement from the court Friday said that the court found: would have serious and irremediable detrimental [...]

Iran’s Supreme Court ordered a retrial of labor rights activist Sharifeh Mohammadi who had been sentenced to death for treason, according to local media that spoke to her lawyer on Saturday. The order lifts her death sentence while she awaits a retrial. In the Revolutionary Court conviction, Mohammadi’s alleged membership in the National Labor Unions [...]

A senior NATO official warned on Saturday that by unilaterally opening a bridge between Serb and Albanian neighborhoods in the town of Mitrovica, Kosovo could risk triggering violence. Admiral Munsch highlighted that the decision to reopen the bridge needs to take place at a political level within the EU-facilitated negotiations between Kosovo and Serbia. Munch [...]

A UN peacekeeper was wounded by gunfire from an unknown source in southern Lebanon, the UN Interim Force in Lebanon (UNIFIL) reported on Saturday, amid clashes between Israel and Hezbollah. UNIFIL reported that the peacekeeper, stationed at their headquarters in Naqoura, was struck by gunfire due to nearby military activity, with the source of the [...]

The UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (UNOCHA) reported Thursday that over 570,000 people are likely displaced in Myanmar’s Rakhine State due to ongoing conflict between the Myanmar Armed Forces (MAF) and the rebel Arakan Army, with over 3 million people displaced by conflict and flooding across the country. Adding to the humanitarian [...]

Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk stated at a political convention Saturday that the country will temporarily suspend the right to apply for asylum. The measure comes as a part of a new governmental strategy called “Regain Control, Ensure Security,” which will aim at drastically decreasing irregular migration and all the negative consequences that it brings [...]